Gerard Dow von ihm selbst gemalt. Original von derselben Grösse.

Title

Gerard Dow von ihm selbst gemalt. Original von derselben Grösse.

Description

This Lithographie is made after the original painting of ard Dou or Douw, a dutch painter. He is sourrounded by his famous items, a globe, music notes and a violin.

ca. 1837

Artist

Hanfstaengl (1804-1877)

Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804- 1877) Munich was a German painter, lithographer and photographer. Franz Hanfstaengl came from a long-established farming family from Baiernrain near Tölz and in 1816, on the recommendation of the village school teacher, joined the drawing class at the holiday school run by Hermann Josef Mitterer in Munich. He was trained in lithography, had contact with Alois Senefelder and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1819-25. He set up his own lithographic studio, which he ran until 1868 and to which he added an art print shop in 1853. In 1835-52, Hanfstaengl produced around 200 lithographic reproductions of masterpieces from the Dresden Picture Gallery and published them in a portfolio. The establishment he founded in 1833 continued to operate as an art publishing house under his name after his death until 1980. This business was professionalized from 1868 by Franz Hanfstaengl's son Edgar, who worked commercially and overseas. The writer Thomas Mann ironized his mass reproduction of art in his 1902 novella Gladius Dei by describing him and his “reproduction industry” as the “Blüthenzweig art dealership”. Hanfstaengl's grave is located in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.